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Pakistan’s internal security situation has continued to deteriorate despite the closure of crossing points along the Durand Line nearly three months ago and the use of air power…

She had envisioned a historic homecoming, one where throngs of supporters would flood the streets of Dhaka and every corner of Bangladesh, heralding what she hoped would be her…

The war of annihilation in Gaza, following the "Al-Aqsa Flood" operation and its regional repercussions, has placed Turkey and Israel in a state of rivalry and indirect…

Every year, as Christmas approaches, I hear a familiar question across many parts of the Muslim world: as a Muslim, should I offer greetings to my Christian neighbors? Many choose…

Beirut – Mounting questions surround the fate of the March 10, 2024 agreement, signed by Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa and Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Syrian Democratic…

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s repeated, almost theatrical gratitude toward Donald Trump for “resolving” the recent India–Pakistan conflict is not diplomacy,  it is an…

Afghanistan’s recent water-resources decisions, including the recent in-principle approval of a major water transfer scheme, must be evaluated in the context of intensifying…

WELLINGTON: In the golden evening light of a Sydney summer, 44-year-old Ahmed Al-Ahmed stepped out for a simple ritual shared by millions: a coffee with a friend. The setting, the…

What does it feel like to constantly wake to a world that has been quietly, ruthlessly, inverted? To feel the ground of your own reality—the principles you were raised on, the…

Proxy warfare, the deliberate cultivation of non-state insurgent actors as instruments of state policy, is neither legitimate nor sustainable. Pakistan’s experience in Afghanistan…